In October 2015, the vice president of Bolivia (in Spanish), Alvaro García Linera, concluded his visit to China, during which negotiations for a US$7.5 billion loan began. China would grant Bolivia this loan for investment in road, railway, and electric power infrastructure projects. These projects consist of:
These loans will not be negotiated as a lump sum, but will be requested from Eximbank on a project-by-project basis and will be supplied by Chinese companies, once the corresponding procedures and interest rates have been approved.